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1) be to do 表示当时或将要发生的事 The wanted man is believed to be living in New York. 据悉这个被通缉的人目前住在纽约。 Many people are said to be homeless after the floods. 据说，水灾后的人们现在无家可归。 2) be to have done 表示已经发生过的事 She is known to have lied. 人们知道她撒谎了。 Columbus is supposed to have discovered America. 人们认为，是哥伦布发现了新大陆。 常用的此类 <句型> 有： “It is said that…（据说…）”，“It is believed that…（一般相信）”，“It is expected that… （一般预料）”， “It is thought that…（一般认为…）”， “It is reported that…（据报导…）”，“It is estimated that…（据估计…）”，“It is known that…（一般皆 知…）”。
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S1. …but it wasn’t until my third year in high school that the possibility took hold. (L2)
It was not until ...that ... not until的三种句型
Grammar
Writing for Myself
By Russell Baker
1 The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off and
on since my childhood in Belleville, but it wasn‟t until
my third year in high school that the possibility took
Unit One---Growing up
Text A Writing for Myself
II. Text Organization
Part Division of the Text
Parts 1 2 3
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1~15 16~39 40~60
Main Ideas
Baker was bored by everything associated with English courses, including essay writing. Baker found himself attracted by one particular topic and wrote about it for his own joy. The experience of writing the essay helped him discover his talent for writing and realize what he wished to do in life.
that here is a touch of irony 反语; 讽刺) S2. Late in the year we learned how to write informal essays and practiced writing them.
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This title produced an extraordinary sequence of mental
seemed a comic antique.
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Notes
S1. When it was decided that Mr. Fleagle would teach us English during my third year in high,I expected the English course to be as boring as before. S2. …was said to be… (See P16) 结构︰sb is said / believed /expected / thought / reported to do sth. = It is ＋ 过去分词 （said／believed／expected ／ thought／reported）＋ that从句 eg: He is said to be a corruption official. =It is said (that) he is a corruption official.
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Notes with Mr. Fleagle as our S1. I expected that things wouldn’t improve
English teacher, and for a long time I was right in my expectation. ( Note
hold. Until then I‟d been bored by everything associated
with English courses. I found English grammar dull and difficult. I hated the assignments to turn out long,lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write.
Language Points
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I prepared for an unfruitful year with Mr. Fleagle and for a
long time was not disappointed. Late in the year we tackled the informal essay. Mr. Fleagle distributed a homework sheet offering us a choice of topics. None was quite so simple-minded as “ What I Did on My Summer Vacation”, but most seemed to be almost as dull. I
It is believed that health is above wealth. 一般人都相信健康重于财富。 It is reported that the car accident took place yesterday. 据报导，那场车祸是在昨天某个时候发生的。 It is estimated that the damage was over one million dollars. 据估计，损失超过了一百万元。 It is expected that John will be back by ten. 约翰在十点以前回来是预料中的事。 It is said that the boy grew up to be a noted scientist. 据说那男孩长大后成了一位知名的科学家。 It is generally thought that traveling abroad can enrich one's knowledge/broad one’s horizon. 一般认为出国旅游可增广见闻。 back
He didn’t come back until midnight. Not until midnight did he come back.
It was not until midnight that he came back.
not until的倒装与强调结构
1.当Not until位于句首时,句子要倒装。其结构为: Not until+从句/表时间的词+助动词+(主句)主语+谓语+...。 Eg: ①Not until the teacher came in did the students stop talking.直到老师进来学生们才停止讲话。 ②Not until next week will the sports meet be held.直 到下周才开运动会。 2. not until的强调结构为: It is / was not until+从句/表时间的词+that+...。 Eg: ③It was not until the teacher came in that the students stopped talking. ④It is not until next week that the sports meet will be held. back
Part II (Paras3-5)
• Questions:
4. What did the teacher ask students to do late in the year? 5. Did I finish the writing very soon? 6. What is the title the writer chose? 7. Why did the writer write the essay?
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2 When our class was assigned to Mr.Fleagle for third-year English
I anticipated another cheerless year in that most tedious of subjects. Mr.Fleagle had a reputation among students for dullness and inability to inspire. He was said to be very formal,rigid and hoplooked to be sixty or seventy and
took the list home and did nothing until the night before the essay
was due. Lying on the sofa, I finally faced up to the unwelcome task,took the list out of my notebook, and scanned it. The topic on which my eye stopped was “ The Art of Eating Spaghetti.”
excessively prim. He wore primly severe eyeglasses, his wavy hair
was primly cut and primly combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white shirts. He had a primly pointed jaw,a primly straight nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he
Paraphrase
S1. Up to then, Baker had had no interest in things related to English courses.
S2. I found it painful to write long, boring essays as required by teachers; neither did teachers enjoy what I wrote.